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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

How Contextual Information in Physical Environments Shapes Decisions with AI

AI assistants in augmented reality may advise users about parts of the physical world they cannot directly observe. We ask whether contextual information from the situation helps users make better decisions with fallible AI. In an AR visual- search study (N = 32), we varied target prevalence and scene visibility while...

Omar Elgohary, Amanda Elvarsdottir, Vannessa Lee et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Towards fNIRS foundation models: A curated corpus of 67 public datasets with channel positions in MNI space

Brain foundation models have transformed medical artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience by reducing the reliance on task-specific data through large-scale pretraining. While they have been successful with non-invasive neuroimaging data, their adoption in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has...

Santiago Posso-Murillo · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Substantial, Decomposable, and Invisible: Visual Context Misalignment in Instructional Videos for Physical Tasks

Instructional videos are the dominant medium for completing physical tasks, yet rarely match the user's visual context. Motor simulation and cognitive load theories predict this mismatch matters, but how much, which attributes are responsible, and how users experience it remain unknown. We conduct two studies (56 parti...

Yayuan Li, Chenglin Li, Jingying Wang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Multi-Agent Home Energy Management Assistant

Existing home energy management systems conceptualize occupants as passive recipients of energy information and control, which limits their ability to effectively support informed decision-making and sustained engagement. This paper presents Home Energy Management Assistant (HEMA), the first open-source, multi-agent sy...

Wooyoung Jung · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Nov 2026

A Multimodal Haptic Interface for Simultaneous Softness and Thermal Modulation

Haptic interactions, such as touching an object in virtual reality, involve detecting a plethora of sensations through the skin. Whilst tactile displays exist to simulate and manipulate all of these cues individually, little progress has been made constructing devices that can control multiple cues simultaneously. This...

Joshua Brown, Fernando Bello, Lynette Jones · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

"Blind Compliance": Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking

The explosion of generative AI systems and concerns surrounding their rapidly scaling capabilities has led to an adversarial cycle between increasingly narrow content restrictions ("guardrails") and increasingly sophisticated structured prompting techniques ("jailbreaks"). Technological frameworks surrounding such jail...

Acacia L. Ackles, Elliott Whitson · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Automatic keyphrase extraction and annotation: modern theoretical approaches and practical solutions for text and speech

The exponential growth of textual and audiovisual information has made the task of automatic keyphrase extraction (KE) increasingly significant. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary theoretical approaches and practical solutions for KE across both text and speech modalities. The primary contri...

Daria Guseva, Olga Mitrofanova · 0 citations
#cybersecurity Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Digital Security Under Compound Threats: Surveillance, Threat Reasoning, and Habituation Among North Korean Defectors in China

North Korean defectors residing in China face persistent uncertainty regarding digital security and privacy. Through semi-structured interviews with 19 defectors, we examine how individuals understand digital threats and adapt their security behaviors. We identify three interrelated conditions: transnational surveillan...

Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Lionel Z. Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ReviewMap: Mapping Evaluative Acts and Automation Boundaries in Peer-Review Comments

Peer-review comments check what a paper does and judge why it matters, but no existing scheme distinguishes these two evaluative acts. We argue that making these acts explicit and measuring how reliably LLMs identify them is a prerequisite for responsible LLM-assisted review analysis: humans need to inspect review judg...

Kihyun Na, Injung Kim · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Nov 2026

VREgo: Consumer VR Headsets for Learning Robot Manipulation from Egocentric Demonstrations

VREgo trains manipulation policies from demonstrations recorded on consumer VR headsets; we instantiate it with EgoKit on one such headset, the PICO 4 Ultra. On-device head and hand tracking and stereo object localisation allow the operator to begin a demonstration at the table. We adapt HumanEgo's preprocessing to est...

Liuchuan Yu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Automated Feedback to Peer Tutors Increases Their Talk Moves and Learner Reasoning but Not the Balance of Talk

Automated feedback on classroom discourse improves instruction in professional and online teaching contexts, and recent work suggests that delivering similar feedback to learners may strengthen these effects by sharing responsibility for participation. Whether this holds in small-group volunteer tutoring has not been t...

Dorottya Demszky, Yann Hicke, Joy Yun et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Category differences in similarity between fixation density maps and psychological potential fields for sketches

When an object comes into view, humans can instantaneously recognize it if known to them. However, assessing how this recognition takes place remains challenging. A few studies using simple sketches have reported varying degrees of image similarity between the fixation density map (FDM), which visualizes eye movements...

Naoyuki Awano, Yuki Hayashi · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5, 2026

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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